Status of DragonFlyBSD development

[John Marino (DragonFly)]

Or y'all could just officially adopt Ravenports which has full
package releases at least monthly.
I know, I know, the chromium package isn't finished.

but it's got the last rust, llvm/clang, gcc, etc.

John

On Sat, Mar 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM Aaron LI <aly at aaronly.me> wrote:

> Hi Nelson,
>
> We really need to do a major release (i.e. 6.6) soon, but we're still
> struggling with the packages.  We're still fixing 2024Q3 from FreeBSD
> Ports and it seems to still need some time.  I'm sorry I don't know the
> schedule.  We currently only have a handful developers working on the
> packages and it's becoming harder to keep up with FreeBSD.
>
> By the way, we'll also do a point release (i.e., 6.4.1) soon, in order
> to fix the annoying TLS certificate failure with Let's Encrypt.
>
> Cheers,
> Aaron
>
> FYI, I still remember to test TeXLive on DragonFly. Really sorry about
> the long delay...
>
>
> On 3/2/25 6:29 AM, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> > Can DragonFlyBSD folks comment on the status of O/S and package
> > development?
> >
> > I ask because the last gcc update on my DragonFlyBSD 6.4.0 system was
> > for version 12.2.0 on 29-Jul-2024, and the last clang update was
> > version 14.0.6 on 2-Aug-2024.  My kernel is dated 30-Dec-2022.
> >
> > Recent FreeBSD releases have clang-21 and gcc-15, and the
> > LLVM/Clang download site at
> >
> >       https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases/
> >
> > has binaries for some systems up to LLVM 20.1.0-rc2.
> >
> > The site at
> >
> >       https://www.dragonflybsd.org/download/
> >
> > was last updated on 1-Jan-2023, 26 months ago.
> >
> > I run updates on my active VMs every 2 to 4 weeks, and I have not had
> > any updates for DragonFlyBSD 6.4.0 since 15-Oct-2024.
> >
> > Are other DragonFlyBSD list members also seeing a lull in O/S and
> > package releases?
> >
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > - Nelson H. F. Beebe                    Tel: +1 801 581 5254
>       -
> > - University of Utah
>       -
> > - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB    Internet e-mail:
> beebe at math.utah.edu  -
> > - 155 S 1400 E RM 233                       beebe at acm.org
> beebe at computer.org -
> > - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA    URL:
> https://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe -
> >
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